On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:59, dani...@grinta.net said: > However, the ordering is not really enforced: this
Right. Options and commands are actuallay interchangeable but that is an undocumented features. In fact the only difference between a command and an option is that tehre may only be one command but many options. And the error message for a command is slightly different. > I find it surprising that unrecognized tokens are simply ignored. > Wouldn't it be preferable to error out, at least on unrecognized options? GnuPG does not follow the common GNU model of interchangeable options and args. It is modeled like a classic Unix tool. Using the special option '--' indicates that everything what follows are args and using this is suggested to avoid args beeing interpreted as options. No, we can't error out on an arg which looks like an option because that may actually be a valid argument. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
